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    UMUC NSCI 101/103 Lab 2: Types of Forces INSTRUCTIONS: On your own and without assistance, complete this Lab 2 Answer Form electronically and submit it via the Assignments Folder by the date listed on your Course Schedule (under Syllabus). To conduct your laboratory exercises, use the Laboratory Manual that is available in the classroom. Laboratory exercises on your CD may not be updated. Save your Lab 2 Answer Form in the following format: LastName_Lab2 (e.g., Smith_Lab2). You

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    Individuals love to go to the amusement parks and try out the rides that are available. The most common and thrilling ride is the roller coaster. An amusement park is not an amusement park if it does not contain a roller coaster. What makes these roller coasters so fun that every amuse parks has one. A lot of people would say it is their extreme high speeds that makes it very exciting. That is a valid answer, but it is the wrong answer. The speed has nothing to do with the excitement. It is more

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    Friction is a force that is directed against the direction of motion. It usually acts to slow down the moving object. In some occasions, this force can be useful such as in the case where vehicles are making turns. In these cases, the frictional forces provide the needed force to stay on the track. In this experiment, we used a force sensor and a computer to determine the friction of a sliding block with and without different masses on it. Procedure Description of setup We connected the force sensor to

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    static friction coefficient of a friction forces acting on a wooden block by increasing the mass in each experiment. Each experiment was attempted to find the relationship between the friction force and the normal forces on the wooden block as it being slid horizontally maintaining a uniform motion by a spring scale. Every experiment was documented and finally, with the help of computer-generated graph it was understood that the Friction force and the Normal force were relative to each other. The friction

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    a net force. Sometimes this law is referred to as the law of inertia, where inertia is explained as being the natural tendency of an object to remain at rest or in motion at a constant velocity. The second law states that: when a net external force acts on an object of mass m, the acceleration that results is directly proportional to the net force and has a magnitude that is inversely proportional to the mass. The direction of the acceleration is the same as the direction of the net force. Lastly

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    money to help this field of medicine. Prosthesis is defined by the dictionary as “a device, either external or implanted, that substitutes for or supplements a missing or defective part of the body.” Prosthetics gives the chance to achieve a healthy, normal life for many people. Prosthetics has changed drastically since the beginning as now the developers are able to customize the artificial limb using different materials depending on where the location of the limb will be thereby increasing compatibility

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    every object in the world is studied by physics. Physics deals a lot with forces, such as normal force, gravitational force, and frictional force. A simple example of these forces is a pen being dropped. The force acting on the pen is the gravitational force. There is no other object under the pen to keep it from falling, so the pen will keep falling until it hits the floor. One of the most basic examples of how forces in physics work is a man standing. What keeps the man from simply falling forever

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    friction is studied. Friction is the force that is parallel to the surface and goes against the force of motion. Friction is dependent on the material of the two surfaces acting upon each other. Two types of friction were observed. Kinetic friction is the friction of two surfaces in motion. Static friction is the friction that must be overcome in order for an object to be in motion. Static friction will always be greater than kinetic friction because it requires more force to move a motionless object than

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    ‘An object at rest stays at rest, and an object in motion stays in motion, with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.’ (Sir Isaac Newton- Law of Inertia) Before the early 17th century, scientists were convinced that an object (pushed across another surface), only came to a rest once the force/s behind it stopped working. Galileo (1564-1642) - a great Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher- realised this was not the case. He concluded

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    Section 1: Force A force is any interaction that, when unopposed, will change the motion of an object . Unsurprisingly, force plays a vital role and in another word, dominates the whole motion of the roller coaster. Therefore, it is necessary to understand how does force works on the roller coaster, and also physical principles related to this. Because force is a vector with magnitude and direction and it couldn 't be calculated by simply adding or substituting, how to calculate the forces exerted on

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